Vettel's little tantrum when Hamilton passed him....

... anyone else find this funny? There's one thing I've noticed about Vettel and that's that he's all smiles and sunshine when it's all going his way, but as soon as it's not he often gets the shits very quickly.

... anyone else find this funny? There's one thing I've noticed about Vettel and that's that he's all smiles and sunshine when it's all going his way, but as soon as it's not he often gets the shits very quickly.

Hillarious! He just lost the lead of the race, and compromised his championship, not because of his driving, but because of a silly backmarker who didn't move away earlier.... I am sure all other F1 drivers would have been elated had that happened to them

F**** double standards. For me ridiculous advantage RBR has in fast corners is also a farce.DRS is same for everyone, THEY made a choice of downforce level, gear ratios hence top speed so they should just STFU.

Didn't mean to offend you, just Vettel acts like spoiled kid sometimes and it pisses me off a bit.

Rubbish. If DRS was such a farce in Austin why did Hamilton only get past on the 10th or so DRS attempt? It took a back marker holding up Vettel by about 0.5s to let Lewis get close enough to finally make proper use of the DRS. And if the DRS was such an advantage Vettel should have had no problem making use of it himself and re-passing Hamilton. Did anyone hear Vettel complaining the DRS was too good when he was trying to pass Hamilton? Thought not.

Hillarious! He just lost the lead of the race, and compromised his championship, not because of his driving, but because of a silly backmarker who didn't move away earlier.... I am sure all other F1 drivers would have been elated had that happened to them

But then when Alonso does something similar, he is a dummy spitting spoiled brat.

I am perfectly OK with drivers (whether they are Vettel, Hamilton, Alonso or whoever) venting their frustration in the heat of the moment and then behaving like normal human beings.

What I find amazing is how the same (or very similar) behaviour can be perceived so differently depending on whose behaviour is.

I thought someone (Kravitz??) said that the full message was Vettel bitching about getting held up behind Karthikeyan in the esses which resulted in the easy pass

Yap. He wasn't complaining about Hamilton passing him or about DRS or about the top speed of the McLaren or anything of the sort. He was complaining about a backmarker who ignored the blue flags, held him up, and led him to lose the lead on the race, and to compromise his championship campaign....

If you listen on the team radio after the Austin race Horner is all "It wasn't your fault Seb" and Seb is all "I am not to blame". It's like - why are they so obsessed with the kid not taking responsibility for anything at all (see also the recent farce behind the safety car in Abu Dhabi where he had a tanty at Daniel Ricciardo)? It's pathological. I now totally understand how Turkey 2010 happened.

He lost a position. Big deal. It happens with a driver of Hamilton's calibre behind you. Man up and take it gracefully, don't blame it on a random backmarker or "stupid" DRS or whatever. They had to get past lots of backmarkers and Hamilton simply bided his time. It was always going to happen IMO.

Yap. He wasn't complaining about Hamilton passing him or about DRS or about the top speed of the McLaren or anything of the sort. He was complaining about a backmarker who ignored the blue flags, held him up, and led him to lose the lead on the race, and to compromise his championship campaign....

No, someone posted a link to the audio yesterday. He bitches about both the DRS making it too easy and producing a stupid overtake, and then later after pauses says "it was Karthikeyan's fault".

Basically he was frustrated at being overtaken and lashed out at several things at once.

He lost a position. Big deal. It happens with a driver of Hamilton's calibre behind you. Man up and take it gracefully, don't blame it on a random backmarker or "stupid" DRS or whatever. They had to get past lots of backmarkers and Hamilton simply bided his time. It was always going to happen IMO.

He behaved very gracefully after the race, so what is the big deal?He was right to be pissed at the moment it happened. He had just done a brilliant mistake free race for more than 1 hour, leaving his champioship rival behind by 30 seconds. And after such a brilliant run he loses the lead because of a backmarker. Of course it is frustrating when you do brilliantly and still loses the lead because of a situation out of your control. And if he gets it out of his system by having a small whine on the radio, who cares? It is not like it influenced on his driving, he was brilliant throughout the race and never made a single mistake.

Everybody has to vent on the radio. Alonso had a whine in practice because Michael was warming up on an outlap. As long as they keep their driving cool, who cares what is said?On this point I think the edited radio broadcasts are misleading. Since we only get a very selected number of transmission during the race, who knows what is going on most of the time? I think the transmission for every car should be open to fans, not just to the producer of the TV broadcast.

If you listen on the team radio after the Austin race Horner is all "It wasn't your fault Seb" and Seb is all "I am not to blame". It's like - why are they so obsessed with the kid not taking responsibility for anything at all (see also the recent farce behind the safety car in Abu Dhabi where he had a tanty at Daniel Ricciardo)? It's pathological. I now totally understand how Turkey 2010 happened.

He lost a position. Big deal. It happens with a driver of Hamilton's calibre behind you. Man up and take it gracefully, don't blame it on a random backmarker or "stupid" DRS or whatever. They had to get past lots of backmarkers and Hamilton simply bided his time. It was always going to happen IMO.

That's why I don't like vettel or horner, always trying to blame others for their shortcomings. The backmarker is part of the game, I didn't hear vettel complaining when lewis got held up before. It works both ways.Also that double move on hamilton was a bit naughty and could result in a crash if hamilton didn't avoid him.If he thinks it was easy for hamilton do it, then I guess Abu Dhabi was easier for him to do it and nothing special like people are trying to make it...Vettel has to grow up and accept he was beaten fair square.

Hillarious! He just lost the lead of the race, and compromised his championship, not because of his driving, but because of a silly backmarker who didn't move away earlier.... I am sure all other F1 drivers would have been elated had that happened to them

What is silly is that he didn't really have a moan about back markers which would have been perfectly understandable (despite the briefing), he instead started to moan about DRS basically.

Rubbish. If DRS was such a farce in Austin why did Hamilton only get past on the 10th or so DRS attempt? It took a back marker holding up Vettel by about 0.5s to let Lewis get close enough to finally make proper use of the DRS. And if the DRS was such an advantage Vettel should have had no problem making use of it himself and re-passing Hamilton. Did anyone hear Vettel complaining the DRS was too good when he was trying to pass Hamilton? Thought not.

If you listen on the team radio after the Austin race Horner is all "It wasn't your fault Seb" and Seb is all "I am not to blame". It's like - why are they so obsessed with the kid not taking responsibility for anything at all (see also the recent farce behind the safety car in Abu Dhabi where he had a tanty at Daniel Ricciardo)? It's pathological. I now totally understand how Turkey 2010 happened.

He lost a position. Big deal. It happens with a driver of Hamilton's calibre behind you. Man up and take it gracefully, don't blame it on a random backmarker or "stupid" DRS or whatever. They had to get past lots of backmarkers and Hamilton simply bided his time. It was always going to happen IMO.

He owned his mistake with Ricciardo later, but as it doesn't fit your agenda, you probably ignored that part.